Purchasing and Supplier Development
Accelerate your purchasing and supply activities with targeted strategies and lasting partnerships. Merkur strengthens and optimizes your supplier network to secure your operations, maximize gains, and boost your competitiveness.
OUR EXPERTISE
Secure your purchasing by building lasting supplier partnerships
Secure your purchasing by building lasting supplier partnerships
From defining your purchasing strategy to qualifying suppliers, we support you at every step to secure your supply. Our approach combines rigor, collaboration, and digital tools to build lasting, high performing partnerships.
Backed by our multi sector expertise, we help you anticipate risks, optimize costs, and improve lead times without compromising quality. We put the right indicators and processes in place to manage supplier performance day to day. Whether it is international sourcing, nearshoring, reshoring, or strategic contracts, we structure your decisions and strengthen your competitiveness in a constantly evolving environment.
- Define your purchasing strategy to increase competitiveness (multi-sourcing, nearshoring, reshoring)
- Identify and qualify key suppliers
- Optimize costs and lead times to speed up your projects
- Proactively manage supply risks
- Develop and negotiate solid, long-term contracts
- Analyze and digitize your purchasing processes for greater efficiency
- Deploy precise KPIs to track performance
Tools
Sourcing platforms
Cost analysis tools
TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) analysis
Purchasing segmentation strategy (Kraljic)
Contracts
PPAP
We combine strategic expertise, digital tools, and close on-the-ground support to strengthen your supplier network and build lasting partnerships. Grounded in transparency, collaboration, and measurable performance, our approach boosts the competitiveness of your procurement, secures your supply chain, and improves your results over time.
From strategy to execution
From definition to implementation, our experts help you structure your strategies and accelerate the execution of your critical projects.
The Strength of Collaboration and Expertise
You benefit from our specialists’ cross-industry experience as they work directly with your teams to develop strong, long-lasting partnerships.
Proven tools for success
We apply best practices and provide recognized tools to ensure the success of your projects.
PROJECTS
Warehouse Consolidation and Design of a Multisite Logistics Network
Manufacturing
Our client in the powersports industry aimed to introduce a new range of modular products and double its production.
Supplier selection for Dettson: Combining procurement expertise and electrical engineering support
Manufacturing
Merkur worked with Dettson, a Sherbrooke-based company specializing in the design of central forced-air systems and water heaters, to finalize the development of an electronic control board dedicated to a new family of electric boilers.
ARTICLES
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